timelines of worldclassbrands -what if purpose of brand leaders will exponentially determine succeess or failure of our final 40 year examination in species sustainability -launched in 1988 with a series in the economist - year of brand, death of brand manager- what needed to die as the world united around death of distance technolgues was the advertising paradim of battling for minds with a different brand for every new product and in every different language- what woud be the mos importnant new geres of brands? places? faiths? big data local platforms - how would adam smith and james watt quarter of a century 1760-2010 morph into humanising moore machine intel than human as we entered 4G and 5G decades: back in 1960s alumni of moore had promised 100 times more computation power every decade 0g 1970s onwards - thats an exponential of trillion times moore by end of 2030 than needed to code moon landing- such power depended on trust in collaboration around globalistion's most purposeful brand leaders as well as integration of community sized enterprse value chains if sustainabity golals were to be a united reality not just a greenwashing game

universityofstars -what if world class sporting leagues prepped uber champoins- once you're too old to stay top of the pops in sports song or beauty, what if you already know an sdg leader you want to share your and her alumni with-launched 2004 in delhi with 100- gandhians after seeing some early reality tv competitions as well as writing up 184's story of the critical deadlines of morphing digital and pre-digital media to be the sustainably deepest of both not the socially most trivial -more

Fascinating to track with hudson institute how many european countries have given up with the official advice of mr trump on building g5 and are letting carriers just do it with whomever offers the best deal washington dc technology's biggest leap -breaking 14 nov - many nations and continents are racing into 2020s with probably the biggest innovation crisis ever du8e to greed of governments spectrum auctions at $G #G- failure to let the peoples use 5g video would 5G exist without china -discussion welcome chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

Sunday, December 29, 2019

THE WORLD’S climate experts, activists and officials were gathered in Madrid this week for the 25th annual UN climate talks. But the big news was unfolding far away in Brussels, where the European Commission’s new president, Ursula von der Leyen, barely 11 days in office, announced her eagerly awaited Green Deal. The 24-page document reads like a list of vows to transform Europe into a living demonstration of how a vast economy can both prosper and prioritise the health of the planet. It covers everything from housing and food to biodiversity, batteries, decarbonised steel, air pollution and, crucially, how the EU will spread its vision beyond its borders to the wider world. “Our goal,” declared Mrs von der Leyen, “is to reconcile the economy with the planet.” Her plan is large on ambition, but in many places frustratingly vague on detail.

TUYA’S COLLECTION of bongs occupies an entire bookshelf in her immaculate little flat, though she does not smoke marijuana—she just likes the way they look. Her weaknesses, alcohol and pills, landed her in a homeless shelter in Helsinki for three years. But since 2018 she has had an apartment of her own, thanks to a strategy called “housing first” with which Finland has all but eliminated homelessness.

Akbar has no such luck. Last month the Afghan migrant stood in the mud of a camp outside Paris, brushing his teeth at a hose that served as a communal shower. For two months Akbar had been living in a tent city of 3,500 Asian and African migrants, hoping to apply for refugee status.

Tuya and Akbar are at opposite ends of Europe’s growing homelessness problem. Finland is the only European country where the numbers are not rising. In other rich welfare states, escalating housing costs are pushing more people into homeless shelters. In countries with weak social services, many end up on the street. And everywhere, migrants with the wrong papers fall through the cracks.

Statistics on homelessness are patchy, but dispiriting. In 2010-18 the French government doubled the spaces in emergency accommodation to 146,000, yet cannot meet demand. In Spain the number in shelters rose by 20.5% between 2014 and 2016. In the Netherlands homelessness has doubled in the past decade. In Ireland, the number in shelters has tripled. The German government estimates homelessness rose by 4% in 2018 to a record 678,000, most of them migrants. All this has thrown a spanner into governments’ plans. For years, they have been trying to shift from providing beds for the night to housing-first strategies like Finland’s. Instead they are struggling to keep people off the streets.

The housing-first approach got its start in North America in the 1990s. Previously social-service agencies used a “staircase” model: to qualify for a subsidised flat, homeless people first had to control their behavioural problems (such as addiction, petty crime or mental illness). In the meantime they had to sleep in shelters.

But being homeless makes it hard to quit drugs or crime. Shelters are often dangerous, because they are full of desperate people. Some homeless folk prefer to sleep rough, though that is risky. Street sleepers are often robbed and often get ill. When American and Canadian cities tried first giving homeless people a place to live and then working on behavioural problems, the approach saved more money on police, jails, shelters and health care than it cost.

In 2008 Finland became the first European country to embrace housing first. The number of long-term homeless has since fallen by 21% to about 5,500. (This includes those in shelters; the number sleeping rough in Finland is negligible, as they would die of cold.) Chronically homeless people were shifted from hostels to flats with contracts under their own names. They pay rent with the help of government benefits. The government saves €15,000 ($16,500) per year in overall spending on each homeless person it houses. Hostels can be counterproductive, says Juha Kaakinen of Y-Foundation, the country’s biggest social-housing group: they “create a kind of culture of homelessness”.

The complex where Tuya lives, run by the Salvation Army, is classified as “supported housing”. There are 20 staff for the 87 residents. Each flat has a kitchen, and there is a jolly communal café. Social workers keep track of each resident’s problems and run work activities. Every year a few graduate to less dependent housing, but expectations are modest, says Antti Martikainen, the complex’s director. Persuading a troublesome resident to stop dropping rubbish out of the window is a win.

All this takes resources. Finland has hired hundreds of new social workers. In 2017 it built more subsidised public housing for low-income renters (over 7,000 units) than England, with a population one-tenth the size. Still, in a small, wealthy country to which few poor people move, it appears that homelessness is solvable.

Can big countries do the same? In France, the national emergency shelter hotline (number 115) gets 20,000 calls per day. Paris’s annual “solidarity night”, when volunteers systematically scour the city to count everyone sleeping rough, found 3,622 people in February this year.

The poor face rising rents and precarious employment, says Bruno Morel of Emmaüs Solidarité, a housing organisation. Each year from November 1st to March 31st France bars landlords from evicting tenants, and this year the Paris region created an extra 7,000 temporary winter shelter places. But Mr Morel says it needs 10,000.

Another problem is the split between native homeless, for whom municipalities are responsible, and migrants, who fall under the national government. Dominique Versini, Paris’s deputy mayor for solidarity, blames the state for the migrant camps: when the city tried to set up a reception centre to house them, she says, the government blocked it. (In November it closed the camps and moved the migrants to temporary shelters farther out.)

Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist mayor, converted the reception hall of Paris’s Hôtel de Ville into a shelter for 39 homeless women. Visiting dignitaries brush shoulders with women recovering from addiction and abuse. Ms Hidalgo has also strengthened Paris’s rent controls. The move keeps current homes cheaper but may discourage private firms from building new ones. The city is building 7500 new social-housing units a year, but Mr Morel says too few are for the very poor.

Germany is more proactive at sheltering migrants than France. But its public housing stock has shrunk dramatically: houses built with government aid can be freely sold or rented out after 30 years. Berlin, which had 360,000 social-housing units in the 1990s, now has just 100,000. Rents have doubled in the past decade. As in Paris, the city government has capped rent increases.

Europe’s homelessness problem combines two issues. Public-housing construction has slowed, and rents are rising fast, because red tape makes it so hard to build in many cities. Meanwhile, illegal immigration creates a homeless population many countries are unwilling to house. That is sabotaging the shift to housing first. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and others have all committed to the policy. But their programmes remain a patchwork of local initiatives and pilots. “Why pilot it when you know that it works?” asks Mr Martikainen, the director of Tuya’s building in Helsinki. In most of Europe, things are not so simple. ■

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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

when i visited soros budapest university for the 20th open society awards - celebrating fazle abed its was one of the happiest places to be a student- i still cant understand how the european union has so carelessly caused refugee crises to hit hungary - meanwhile budapest sad loss is vienna';s gain

VIENNA (Reuters) - Billionaire George Soros opened the new main campus of his Central European University in Vienna on Friday, saying it would not halt its struggle to defend academic freedom from Viktor Orban, the right wing leader he says hounded it from Hungary.

FILE PHOTO: Billionaire investor George Soros speaks to the audience at the Schumpeter Award in Vienna, Austria June 21, 2019. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner

CEU’s decision last year to move the bulk of its courses out of Hungary followed a long struggle between Hungarian-born Soros, who promotes liberal causes through his charities, and Orban’s anti-immigrant government.

Since it was founded by Soros in 1991, CEU has been a gateway to the West for thousands of students from eastern Europe, offering U.S.-accredited graduate degree programs in an academic climate that celebrates free thought.

But after sustained public campaigns to vilify Soros, Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party changed the law in 2017 to ban foreign-registered universities that do not also offer courses in their home country.

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“CEU has steadfastly defended the principle of academic freedom against a concentrated attack by the corrupt government of Viktor Orban, who was hellbent to destroy it,” Soros said at the inauguration of CEU’s Vienna campus.

“CEU’s epic struggle against the repressive regime generated worldwide support. That struggle is still ongoing,” he added.

The university has moved its U.S.-accredited courses to Vienna. It has maintained a presence in Budapest, which Soros said was in recognition of the support shown by other academics.

The move to Vienna was supported by the city’s left-wing government led by Mayor Michael Ludwig of the Social Democrats.

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“An academic institution was told that it was no longer welcome in a nation’s capital city,” Ludwig said, describing the situation as “something that I believe to be unthinkable and should in fact have no place in a united Europe”.

The European Union has long criticized Orban and his Fidesz party for policies it says threaten the rule of law by imposing party control over the judiciary, media and other institutions.

Many European politicians have also condemned Orban’s attacks on Soros, who is Jewish, as anti-Semitic. Fidesz rejects those accusations.

Norman Macrae, having survived teenage navigation of RAF planes bomber command world war 2 over modern-day myanmar/bangladesh, joined The Economist in 1949, and retired as the deputy editor of what he called "the world's favourite viewspaper" in 1988. During that time, he wrote extensively on the future of society and the impact of technology. Norman foresaw species sustainability as being determined by post-colonial and virtual mapmaking- 5G 4G 3G 2G 1G 0G if 60s tech could race to moon and Moore alumni promised 100 times more machine intel every decade TO 2025, let's end poverty mediating/educating a world of loving each others' children- so that wherever the next millennials girl is born she enjoys great chance to thrive.

Soon Norman was celebrating his wartime enemy's rising engineers and win-win sme supply chains across far east and very concerned that tod down constitutions english speaking nations led by political bureaucrats wasn't fit for entrepreneurial revolution-he co-opted a young romani prodi to translate Economist 1976 ER survey into multilingual formats

Amongst some of his more outlandish claims: that governments would not only reverse the nationalisation process and denationalise formerly private industries, but would also sell industries and services that had been state operated for so long that it seemed impossible that they could be run by private companies. A pioneer before the pioneers, Macrae imagined privatised and competing telecommunications and utility companies improving service levels and reducing prices.

When others saw arms build-ups as heralding World War III, Macrae predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall by the end of the 1980's.

The Norman Macrae Archive serves as an on-line library, hosting a growing collection of Macrae articles, newspaper columns and highlights from his books. We hope that you find the articles thought provoking and zoom, twitter or question us - norman's son chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

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1972 ecconomist survey of 1972-2012- WILL AMERICANS AND EUR-CITIZENS EVER BE FREED ENTREPRENEURIALLY FROM PAPER CURRENCIES THE ONLY ZERO-SUM TRADE MONOPLY IN A WORLD WHERE ACTIONABLE KNOWHOW MULTIPLIES VALUE UNLIKECONSUMING UP THING

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In the last chapter of Keynes General Theory of EmploymentMoney and Interest we are told of the exponential threat and opportunity- increasingly only economist and media designers rule what future is possible for a place's next generation

the consequence is if we want children and mothers to haveuniversal basic health services- we need to search outthe most economical system designer www.economisthealth.comdefinitely sir fazle abed, probably jim kim and paul farmer whenallied to the new economics youth networks of George Soros

Raghuram Rajan: How markets and the state leave the community behind

As markets are embedded in a web of human relations, values and norms, they are impacted by human events. Indeed, throughout history, technological advancements have displaced the market from its traditional webs, precipitating sometimes violent backlashes and periods of surging populism. Currently, the strain of globalization and technological shift is both reflecting and exacerbating the polarizing political tensions so evident around the world today.

In a new book, “The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind,” Raghuram Rajan – a professor of finance at the University of Chicago, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and the former governor of the Reserve Bank of India – argues that as markets scale up, the state scales up with it, concentrating economic and political power in flourishing central hubs and leaving the periphery to decompose. His solution: To rethink the relationship between the market and civil society, and strengthen and empower local communities (the “third pillar”) as an antidote to growing despair and unrest.

On February 27, the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings will host Rajan to outline his argument, followed by a response and discussion with New York Times columnist David Brooks.

This event will be live webcsat. Join the conversation on Twitter using #ThirdPillar.

5bis golden-english ::: what if 4 most valuable knowledge economies were connected by education to win-win with youth as sustainability generation? 4 can save the world: chinese english mother tongue coding

..BRI Changing future history: to simplify the last 500 years: From 1500 -1946 Empires ruled the waves; led by Britain a few nations colonised others; they designed currencies & trading routes (ports. later trains, roads...) so empire nations got bigger with often zero gain for colonies. After world war 2, Colonisation fell apart; in the East starting in Japan then Korea then Chinese Diaspora superports eg HK Taiwan Singapore win-win trade grew maximising connectivity of superports, supertrains, bridges/tunnels. By 1975 Japan became 2nd wealthiest and Chinese Diapora 3rd stringest financial network. The Diaspora inward invested in intergenerational rejuvenation of the 1.5 billion mainland chienese with superb trading infrastructure. Prior to 1500, the Chinese had been the most advanced civilisation in the East and the med sea trasding nations in the West- see eg Marco Polos Joyful adentures across the Eurasian Silk Road,. When Xi Jinping became presidnet in 2012, he started asking what if the whole world mapped BRI: where would superpoirts, rails brdges be put so everyone would win-win trade, how much greener could win-win trade routes become as 1000 times more digital connectivity than 1946 mobilises how people shared knowhow. Today over 100 national leaders debate Xi's co-creativity innovations at BRI entrepreneurial revolution summits including WISE, new banking, youth expos at the coming alibaba olympics. Could investing in trade routes be more efficient than wars; could youth be empowered to joyfully bridge cultures and arts that colonisation had accidentally split apart; could every locality unite around sustainability goals andf community-for-all celebrations in time to save humanity from climate wars with mother nature.

40 years on - do you value chiense sustainability milennials enough? In 1977 only a few months after the fall of the gang of four, The Economist's Norman Macrae wrote - what was in store for China was an end to boring ideology and a drive for economic growth. It did not make any difference whether the man carrying out this policy was Ping or Pong or Deng. The same is true in 1995. In recent interviews Singapore's Lee Kuan ew shared this view:

The Chinese are not ordinary people you know. They are the products of a very self-conscious civiliisation. self-conscious because they know they once did it (led the world) and now they are out of the race, they must get back into the race -more at www.economistchina.net

5bisgolden-english::: what if 4 most valuable knowledge economies were connected by education to win-win with youth as sustainability generation? 4 can save the world: chinese english mother tongue coding

..BRI Changing future history: to simplify the last 500 years: From 1500 -1946 Empires ruled the waves; led by Britain a few nations colonised others; they designed currencies & trading routes (ports. later trains, roads...) so empire nations got bigger with often zero gain for colonies. After world war 2, Colonisation fell apart; in the East starting in Japan then Korea then Chinese Diaspora superports eg HK Taiwan Singapore win-win trade grew maximising connectivity of superports, supertrains, bridges/tunnels. By 1975 Japan became 2nd wealthiest and Chinese Diapora 3rd stringest financial network. The Diaspora inward invested in intergenerational rejuvenation of the 1.5 billion mainland chienese with superb trading infrastructure. Prior to 1500, the Chinese had been the most advanced civilisation in the East and the med sea trasding nations in the West- see eg Marco Polos Joyful adentures across the Eurasian Silk Road,. When Xi Jinping became presidnet in 2012, he started asking what if the whole world mapped BRI: where would superpoirts, rails brdges be put so everyone would win-win trade, how much greener could win-win trade routes become as 1000 times more digital connectivity than 1946 mobilises how people shared knowhow. Today over 100 national leaders debate Xi's co-creativity innovations at BRIentrepreneurial revolution summitsincluding WISE, new banking, youth expos at the coming alibaba olympics. Could investing in trade routes be more efficient than wars; could youth be empowered to joyfully bridge cultures and arts that colonisation had accidentally split apart; could every locality unite around sustainability goals andf community-for-all celebrations in time to save humanity from climate wars with mother nature.

Do you agree that losing sustainability would be the greatest intergenerational mistake of all time?

My father started the curriculum of Entrepreneurial Revolution at The Economist in 1972 to try to help peoples prevent this error as death of distance made all of our livelihoods- and social joys - more connected than separated. By 1972, father decided that the most valuable question he could explore for the rest of his life was: what will be the consequences if humans spend 4000 times more money and time on worldwide communications in 2030 that 1946. Will elders joyfully invest in their next generation's open society sustainability or not?

Norman Macrae had observed a doubling of such spend every 7 years since 1946 and moon landing's intel moores law of silicon chips, satellites coming death of cost of telecoms as function of distance made this scenario the biggest (most sudden transformation) to human race's 4 hemispheres ever. In the 1930s people as varied as Einstein, Orwell and Von Hayek had already warned that the greatest compound threat of technological connectivity would be big brothers endgame; so entrepreneurial revolution aimed to search out the alternative positive maps

Between 1972 and 1984 Norman did 2 main things:

round the world leadeship surveys- who ha stories to share on pro-youth investment -eg in llooking forward to mobilising coming sustainability solutions

clarified timelines to 2025 which every parent and society needed to track so that there would not be an inter-generational failure to invest in net generation open societies and orbits gravitated towards sustainability

Norman also clarified that the purposes of some trillion dollar markets would give clearest of all warning signs of exponentially risking intergenerational loss of sustainability

Was it possible that an elder generation could fear or otherwise blind themselves to caring about next generation markets of health, education, banking?

I health services got more and more costly that would indicate the 4000 times more communications spend was not bringing down degrees of freedom in sharing life critical info; it might also indicate that health secrice design was being prioritised to increase working lifetimes (ie by making sure basic care for all children and mothers out of every locality); and knowing how politicians short-term interests put nations at risk, it was quite likely that places with elder populations would design systems putting youth in ever greatest debt (not one of the most interesting worldwide analyses you can do in 2015 is average age - around the world half of people are under 28,5 but in what we may call old countries, more than half of eople are in their mid 40s or more- and young countries go as low as having half their populace under 19. Pretty clearly global social health needs partnerships between young and old countries which are without borders. But will politicians and national single interest groups help free such a future

Is it possible to imagine that educators would become so insecure about the changes that an open educational world could celebrate around milennials generation that they will instead hang on to 4 monopolies of what is taught, researched, examined, certified- even if what teyhy arfe expert at increasingly has no link with youth livelihhods and where redundant methods of ever school and university has to have its own experts cause costs of higher education to put students in huge debts (at a time when their parents have also messed up cost of properties in biggest cities)

aND IS IT POSSIBLE TO IMAGINE THAT GOVERNMENTS WILL TREAT BIG BANKS WITH SPECIAL RULES WHICH PROMISE THE NEXT GENERATION WILL BAIL THEM OUT HOWEVER MANY CRIMINAL SUBPRIME AND PONZI SCHEMES THEY SERIALLY COMMIT

If you live in a place where none of above is spinning 2015 now then your chances of sustainability are high and of course we'd love to pass on your knowhow t millennials who do need entrepreneurial revolution curricula now

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Stories from Norman's invitation to search out 30000 microfranchises\of sustainability.. Its extraordinary failure iof bithe aid and education markets that every most exciting microfranchasie solution we fnd ultimately gets less and less clearly communicated over time and across the world- consider the exciting cases of aravind and grameen shakti

we the peoples need to unwind european union- which parts do you nee to unwind to have a livelihood

eg scotland and wales need their own voices- net generation needs direct export sme support- eg smes in china have overtaken smes in us at borderless exports 2014 when both contients were at 40 billion dolars - china expecetd to grow 4 fold by 2018- whats the trade out of europe by smes through web

nobody needs a common currency

europe bureucartas have been uselss at lanning because you cant plan one continent i fast moving age- but they dont even have correct structure for peace at borders

the whole parliament of separte mps in unnecessary

20 social media and open tech wizards

19 nursing

18 mobilising medical apps

17 nutrition to inner city

16 bioenergy

15 ending waste/carbon

14 crop science

13 funding and incubation hubbed round emerging graduates

12 recruiting superstars to youth community projects related to their stardom

11 women entrepreneurs

10 creating jobs for girls around orphanages or villages

9 youth in foreign assistance

8 developing missing curriculum of youth - ge financial literacy

7 helping regenerate with whatever is a state's most underused skill base

6 any other social service youth most passionate about developing ground up social lab -eg our regions expertise included in atlanta 2012 included : the blind, teen pregnancy , ....

5 any millennium goal collaboration foreign embassies most want to linkin to dc through visiting or diaspora students with a particular focus on africa while obama can help celebrate that

4 anything that builds student trade relationships with china

3 anything that celebrates youth's greatest job creators

2 returning to banks with values

1 changing economists to be pro-youth

0 open content movement partnering of universities/colleges with job creators not examiners of theories- as you probably know bhuiyan's boss in alabama is an MIT alumn and aims to start a university of poverty in alabama round the sorts of processes that have made MIT alumni the number 1 job creating social network all over the world - linking dc into that during obama 2.1 may define what america's net generation contributes